The twisted history Trump’s White House is using to redefine religious freedom

When the Founding Fathers began their work to unify the colonies, America’s religious landscape looked nothing like today’s ...
Tech Times

Compile Once, Run Offline: New AI Method Matches 32B Models With a 23MB File

Local AI inference at 32B-parameter quality, no cloud API required: University of Waterloo researchers released PAW on July 2 ...

Waterloo's PAW compiles task specs into 23MB LoRA adapters a 600M-parameter model runs entirely offline.

Local AI inference at 32B-parameter quality, no cloud API required: University of Waterloo researchers released PAW on July 2, 2026, a system that compiles any natural-language task spec into a 23MB ...
eLife

Distinct involvements of the subthalamic nucleus subpopulations in reward-biased decision-making in monkeys

The subthalamic nucleus contains subpopulations with different contributions to deliberative decision-making based on noisy evidence and reward-driven preferences.
IEEE

Solving the Flexible Task Allocation Problem via Group Role Assignment in Crowdsourcing

Abstract: Flexible employment remains a critical topic for crowdsourcing platforms. Decision-makers always focus their attention on maximizing operational efficiency, yet rarely prioritize the work ...

Citing unpunished sex abuse, rights groups urge halt to Sri Lankan troops Haiti deployment

This is not a military with an isolated misconduct problem. It is a military with a structural impunity problem.” ...

HBO’s ‘Task’ Sets All-Women Directing Team For Season 2

Season 2 stars returning Mark Ruffalo as Tom Brandis, along with Mahershala Ali as Eddie Barnes. Edgar Ramírez as Miguel ...
IEEE

Temporal Defeasible Role–Group–Task Access Control: A Logic-Based Framework for Explainable Authorization

Abstract: This paper introduces TDL-RGTA, a formal Temporal Defeasible Logic framework that enhances Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) by integrating organizational groups and contextual tasks into a ...